The American College of Surgeons Responds to COVID-19 - 18/09/20
, Steven D. Wexner, MD, FACS bin collaboration with the American College of Surgeons COVID-19 Communications Committee, Board of Regents, and Officers
Anthony Atala, MD, John L.D. Atkinson, MD, James C. Denneny, MD, Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, James K. Elsey, MD, Diana L. Farmer, MD, Henri R. Ford, MD, Gerald M. Fried, MD, James W. Gigantelli, MD, B.J. Hancock, MD, Enrique Hernandez, MD, Lenworth M. Jacobs, MD, L Scott Levin, MD, J Wayne Meredith, MD, Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, Lena M. Napolitano, MD, Linda G. Phillips, MD, Valerie W. Rusch, MD, Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, Anton N. Sidawy, MD, Steven C. Stain, MD, Beth H. Sutton, MD, Gary L. Timmerman, MD, Steven D. Wexner, MD, Douglas E. Wood, MD
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Abstract |
The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly, and perhaps irrevocably, changed the way we live, conduct our business affairs, and practice medicine and surgery. In mid-March 2020, as COVID-19 infections escalated exponentially across many areas of the US, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Surgeon General, and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) recommended that hospitals and surgeons postpone non-urgent operations in order to provide care to COVID-19 patients.1, 2, 3 It quickly became obvious that the COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented medical challenges. ACS leadership, including the Board of Regents and Officers (Appendix), worked with the ACS Executive Director (Dr David Hoyt) and staff to rapidly organize a response to the COVID-19 crisis. The aim of this effort was to support ACS members and Fellows, as well as the broader medical community, in continuing to provide optimal patient care. Because other similar public health crises could arise in the future, we report the measures taken by the ACS to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Abbreviations and Acronyms : ACS, BoG, CCC, CMS, CoC, COT, PPC, PPE, RAS, YFA
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| Members of the American College of Surgeons COVID-19 Communications Committee, Board of Regents, and Officers are listed in the Appendix. |
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| Disclosure Information: Nothing to disclose. |
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| Disclosures outside the scope of this work: Dr Rusch receives grant money for institutional clinical trials from Genelux, Inc and Genentech, and receives travel reimbursement for robotic mentoring from Intuitive Surgical. Dr Rusch is Co-Chair for the Thoracic Malignancy Steering Committee, National Cancer Institute and Member, Data Safety Monitoring Committee, MARS2 Trial (UK). Dr Wexner is a paid consultant for Intuitive, Karl Storz, Stryker, Medtronic, Takeda, and Regentys, receives royalties for intellectual property licenses from Intuitive, Medtronic, Karl Storz Endoscopy, and Unique Surgical Innovation, and holds stock options for consultancy with Regentys, LifeBond, Pragma, and Renew Med. |
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| Support: Dr Rusch's work is supported in part by National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA008748. |
Vol 231 - N° 4
P. 490-496 - octobre 2020 Retour au numéro
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